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Intima type D will serve your purpose quite well. Work ok from cold and are brilliant after a corner or two. Johnny Dose Pipe Sutututu can sort you out with good deals on them. Try pm him or email johnny@trak-life.com

Still running the dual mass flywheel? I had a similar issue, clutch would operate fine for 20-30 mins and would then go spongey as you describe. When I pulled it down the only thing I could see that didn't look right was the flywheel. It had lost its tension and had a lot of slack. Replaced the lot with a new clutch/flywheel kit and problem was gone.
Does yours work ok from cold and then go spongey or is it permanently like that now?

I'm currently running ad08r 265/35/18. Have done 3 track days and 7000km on them and they still look to be around 80% tread. I've also bought a 2nd set of wheels and bought proper semi slicks (A050 softs 255/40/18) have done 3 track days on those and they look to have 2 maybe 3 more track days in them. I managed to get fantastic deals on both, the ad08r I got for 260 each when they had buy 3 get 1 free. The A050 set me back 200 each (2 year old stock) that was a bargain. I can't justify retail prices for Yokohamas but at the above rates I would never buy anything else. Sadly I doubt I'll ever get those sort of deals again.

123s are not a semi, more a dual purpose Street/motorsport tyre. I have used them and they did grip quite well, probably on par with federal rsr but they did not last. 2 track days and 3-4000 km on the street and they where gone.

That is quite bad. Is there lots of smoke coming out the exhaust? I can think of a couple of possibilities. Worn rings or damaged turbo oil seals. I would recommend doing a compression test on the engine as a starting point, followed by a leak down test. If it is very low then an engine rebuild will be required. If compression is ok then you can start looking elsewhere, most probably at the turbo. Do a comp test and report back. Cheers.